| 26. The mermaid |
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The Little Mermaid lives at the sea bottom with her father the Sea King, her grandmother, and her five older sisters, born one year apart.
When a mermaid turns 15, she is allowed to swim to the surface to watch the world above, and as the sisters become old enough one of them visits the surface every year.
As each of them returns the Little Mermaid listens longingly to their descriptions of the surface and human beings. When the Little Mermaid turns 15 she ventures to the surface.
She sees a ship with a handsome prince, and falls in love with him from a distance.
There comes a great storm, and the prince almost drowns, but the Little Mermaid saves him and she delivers him unconscious to the shore near a temple. Here she waits until he is found by a young girl from the temple.
The prince never sees the Little Mermaid.
The Little Mermaid asks her grandmother whether humans can live forever if they do not drown.
She is told that no, humans have an even shorter lifespan than mermaids.
Mermaids live for 300 years, but when they die they turn to sea foam and cease to exist. |
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